[marcosdumay]

> But I think a better option is often fiddling and seeing what happens.

Yeah, as always, IMMV.

But I do agree that online discourse puts too much emphasis on statically analyzing systems, and too little on adding instrumentation or just breaking it and seeing what happens.

At the same time, my experience is that on practice people put too much emphasis on instrumentation or just breaking it and seeing what happens, and way too little on statically analyzing the system.